Hello everone!
I need some help. Maybe your expirience tell me what to do.
I run 64Studio 2.0 updated to current 2.1rc AMD64 compilation.
I have a few sessions in Ardour, each has about 15 mono tracks and 7min.
And here is the problem.
For exapmle:
Folder with one session has 720MB.
I load session and trying to add one bass drum kick sample file 194kB size and duplikate it.
After a few steps of duplicating file Ardour stops responding and crash.
I can only gues ther is problem with memory.
My system cofig is:
cpu - Athlon64 3200+ (2.2 GHz)
mo-bo - ASUS K8N
ram - 1 GB
hd1 - 40GB IDE Maxtor - for root - 6 GB on Ext3 fs
hd2 - 250GB WDCaviar SATAII - for sessions 60 GB partition on ReiserFS fs
I present some data about memoru usage:
after loging in:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 138380 879428 0 5764 64140
-/+ buffers/cache: 68476 949332
Swap: 530136 0 530136
after start Ardour - open only firs window with session to choose to open
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 275164 742644 0 7468 157000
-/+ buffers/cache: 110696 907112
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
during opening session:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 396588 621220 0 7948 188220
-/+ buffers/cache: 200420 817388
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 415040 602768 0 7972 204852
-/+ buffers/cache: 202216 815592
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 439036 578772 0 8016 226652
-/+ buffers/cache: 204368 813440
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 464148 553660 0 8060 249484
-/+ buffers/cache: 206604 811204
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 469716 548092 0 8136 249532
-/+ buffers/cache: 212048 805760
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 506316 511492 0 8184 279260
-/+ buffers/cache: 218872 798936
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
and session fully open:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 657308 360500 0 8532 429628
-/+ buffers/cache: 219148 798660
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
after duplicating file few times and ctrl+s ( duplicated file size 194KB)
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 782916 234892 0 8624 439588
-/+ buffers/cache: 334704 683104
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
and another few duplicates and ctrl+s
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1017808 1007688 10120 0 5272 314752
-/+ buffers/cache: 687664 330144
Swap: 2096472 26372 2070100
and after another few duplicates of file and ctrl+s, Ardour crach - cpu load very high, I think about 100%, I can see only graph on panel in IceWM, hdd start oparates intensive and all session crash and I'm back on desktop, jackd still working.
I have to start session again.
In this example swap usage is low but in other cases when swap was 512MB, it was full so I expand to 2GB.
It dosn't help and all is same as described before.
Also I have done test session with only two tracks, one for kick track and second for lillte sample file for duplicating.
Again, nothing has changed.
Is there something I can do to work without this crashes?
I can add second 1GB ram module but can it help?
Do you need some more data?
Best regards
Arek
P.S.
Sorry for my bad eglish.
